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The Latest on the Flap
Kent Johnson, on the Isola blog, writes,<<<On 9/4/10, Richard Owens, poet and publisher of Punch Press, soon to release A Question Mark above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem “by”…
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Sports Desk: Manny, Summer’s Done and Gone [Gabrielle Calvocoressi]
Manny, Summer’s Done and Gone. I was at this party in the Hollywood hills and everyone was reading poems aloud. Really. And not even a bunch of poets. There were artists and curators…
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“The Duel” [by John Tranter]
(After Baudelaire) Two writers savaged each other: reviews, Letters to the Editor, then a brawl at a gallery with broken glass and shrieking socialites – youth, drink, vanity, sexual rivalry. Soon it’s teeth and…
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Even More Mad Men Haiku
Peggy and Draper: Companions in misery, Sleeping on the couch. A mouse, roach, vomit, a fight. Just another night at Sterling Cooper (Draper Price). Drunk Duck’s love story. We were in love. She’s a…
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More “Mad Men” Haiku
A suitcase means death.Peg cries in the ladies' room.Don cries at his desk. * It's Peggy's birthday.Duck calls her a whore, and DonSwings wildly, too drunk. * "I got rid of him."So fix me…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Craig Santos Perez
from the ghost of the harvest madonna Tears of the Madonna, the Hunger and Other Stories. “Madonna Rescues Malawian Child – only 12 Million to Go.” A boy with an allergy to ghosts has trouble with too-logical…
